Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging【電子書籍】[ Mariam Pirbha ]

＜p＞＜strong＞**Honourable Mention for the 2024 Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize**＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞**Finalist for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Award for Nature (Adult Nonfiction)**＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞After a lifetime of traversing continents and cities, Mariam Pirbhai found herself in Waterloo, Ontario, and there she began to garden. As she looks to local nurseries, neighbourhood gardens and nature trails for inspiration, she discovers that plants are not so very different from people. They, too, can be uprooted, transplanted ? even naturalized. They, too, can behave as a colonizing or invasive species. And they, too, must learn to adapt to a new land before calling it home. In ＜em＞Garden Inventories＜/em＞, Pirbhai brings her scholar's eye, her love of story and an irrepressible sense of humour to bear on the questions of how we interact with the land around us, from what it means to create a garden through the haze of nostalgia, to the way tradition and nature are bound up in cultural id．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る